الحاجات اللغوية العربية لضباط الشرطة

Abstract EN

Although millions of Arabs have moved out of the Arab world, whether for tourism, trade, migration, or asylum, studies on teaching Arabic for security purposes are scarce, if not rare.

To solve this problem, this study aimed to identify the linguistic needs of the police officers, this study followed the descriptive and analytical method.

The questionnaire was used to gather views points on linguistic, cultural, and scientific needs.

The questionnaire consisted of 38 items on the fifth Likert Scale, distributed on four topics, the first topic is linguistic needs, the second topic is cultural needs, the third topic is scientific needs, and the fourth topic is general questions.

The questionnaire was codified by asking a pilot sample of 24 officers, and the final sample was accidental.

by 44 officers.

The research resulted in 14 very important language need, two very important cultural needs, and indicated that listening, speaking and reading skills were of high importance to an officer, whereas writing was important only.

The research recommended that curricula and educational series be developed to train police officers to communicate in Arabic.